Twitter has also had "low-level"
acquisition talks with Facebook and Google and other companies and wants an $8-$10
billion takeout price.

Google and Facebook apparently still have "latent" interest in
buying Twitter, but the talks are on and off and don't sound
particularly serious.

Some other interesting details from the article:

Twitter had revenue of $45 million in 2010 and lost money

Twitter estimates that its revenue this year will be
$100-$110 million

One of Twitter's new ad services, Promoted Trends, is selling
out every day

Twitter now has more than 350 employees

Twitter's "president of revenue," Adam Bain, has already
built a sales force of more than 20 people

If Twitter would actually sell for $10 billion, Google should
just step up and buy it (see
the reasons here). The company would barely miss the cash,
and Twitter would actually put it on the map in social
media.

We actually don't think a Twitter-Facebook deal is even plausible
at this point. We think there would be a protracted anti-trust
investigation prodded along by Microsoft and Google, and we don't think
Facebook could come up with enough cash to make the deal work. We
also think that, if Facebook were to get close to buying Twitter,
Google would pay whatever it took to steal Twitter away.